[Bug 1746126] Re: [MIR] mtd-utils

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Under UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements, in the "Maintenance" section:

"All packages must have a designated "owning" team, regardless of
complexity, which is set as a package bug contact."

This means it is a requirement for the MIR. It should be done along with
the MIR bug, as it is part of the review.

I subscribed foundations-bugs already, but I'll wait until we have a
formal go from our team leader to approve the MIR.

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Title:
  [MIR] mtd-utils

Status in mtd-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  [Availability]
  Currently in universe

  [Rationale]
  mtd-utils is a new dependency of flash-kernel (main)

  [Security]
  There are no outstanding nor historical security issues.

  [Quality Assurance]

  There are a low number of outstanding bugs against the package and is well maintained.
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtd-utils (1)
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mtd-utils (10)

  There is one important bug in Debian but it does not affect Ubuntu since Ubuntu supports only the Linux kernel:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745187
  mtd-utils: Please use arch:linux-any

  The outstanding bugs don't affect flash-kernel's mtd-utils usage.

  The package does deal with exotic hardware, too, if rare SoC variants
  count as such.

  The tests are run in Ubuntu builds. The test result is ignored on
  ppc64el because cmocka is broken there.

  I forwarded the patch fixing the tests upstream:
  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2018-February/079074.html
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/870612/

  [Dependencies]

  All in main (libc6 (>= 2.14), liblzo2-2, libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g
  (>= 1:1.1.4))

  [Standards Compliance]

  Debhelper compat version is 9.

  Generally FHS compliant, with the exception explained here:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589228
  mtd-utils: possible FHS violation, as mkfs.jffs2 and mkfs.ubifs are not in /sbin

  There are minor Debian Policy compliance issues reported by Lintian:
  https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/riku.voipio@linaro.org.html#mtd-utils
  It lists many missing man pages and priority-extra-is-replaced-by-priority-optional

  [Maintenance]

  Packaging is minimal, most likely it will be maintained in syncs from
  Debian after the next upstream release.

  The package will be maintained by the Foundations Team.

  [Background]

  Description: Memory Technology Device Utilities
   Utilities for manipulating memory technology devices, such as flash
   memory, Disk-On-Chip, or ROM.  Includes mkfs.jffs2, a tool to create
   JFFS2 (journaling flash file system) filesystems.

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